SA is technically 21 days away from voting in the country’s seventh national and provincial election
South Africa is technically 21 days away from voting in the country’s seventh national and provincial elections .
The top five places with the most ‘out of country’ registered voters are London 19 518 , the Hague 5572 , Canberra 2609 , Dubai 2574 and Dublin 2341 .Special votes will be next, scheduled to take place on Monday and Tuesday, 27 and 28 May 2024 respectively between 09h00 and 17h00.According to Stats SA’s numbers from the Census 2022 surveys, the voting age population currently numbers just above 39.7 million.
This is despite South Africa’s most populous province going into these elections with the highest number of registered voters, 6.5-million or 24%.Alarmingly, the 18 – 29 age band is the single electoral bloc that persists not to register for elections. However, this time around, if voters do not timeously apply to vote at another voting station where they are ordinarily resident, they will be turned away.One need only look at the patterns from the last 15 years, where voter national voter turnout hovered around 77% in 2009, only to dip to 66% by 2019.
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